The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-05-11


EX-SENATOR DORSEY expects that
Blaine and Fairchild will be the re-
publican ticket next year; but Chicago
paper says there is rumor that Mr..
Blaine wants Robert T. Lincoln to 90
on the ticket with him. Any one can
believe as much of this as they see fit.
FURTHER particulars of the alliance
formed between the Central American
republics increase the hope that the
constant wars, instructions and rebel
lions, which for so long time have been
a standing feature of the history of
these states, have become things of the
past.
GENERAL THOMAS L. RossLER,
native Virginian, a vigorous democrat
of the old school and not friendly to
the republican party, frankly tells the
New York Tribune that Virginia and
North Carolina are lost to the de-
mocracy, and will be surely republican
in the next presidential contest.
WHEN Speaker Carlisle talks about
Cleveland's denomination making New
England doubtful for the republicans
he knows he is talking nonsense. The
mugwumps and free-traders cannot
play the same game in the New En-
gland States next year that they did in
1884. They have been found out
DIR. w. T. NoRTHUP of Haverhill,
Ohio, has met the fate which befell
the Rev. DR.. Haddock of Sioux City, Ia.
Both were energetic in their opposition
to the traffic in Intoxicating liquors
and engaged with zeal in the crusade
against it, and both fell martyrs to the
cause they were so earnest in advanc-
ing.
THE New York Erening Post has a
special from the war correspondent at
Albany giving full account of Gen
eral Sullivan's expedition in 1873 and
the rout of the Six Nations. The mug
wump papers may be slow in obtaining
the news, but their subscribers can de-
pend on getting it either in time or
eternity.-Pitsbugh Chronicle.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Boston
Transcript wants to know who wrote
these lines:
Count that day lost whose low descending sun
If we are not mistaken this is simply
parody. The original, which is I'M
derstood to have originated with the
Erening Post of this city, runs:
Count that day lost whose sun when the wane
Tribune.
THE beer habit is of comparatively
recent origin in this country, but it has
not yet been demonstrated that it is
less destructive in its general effect on
health and morals than is the drinking
of spirituous liquors, while the statis-
tics concerning pauperism and crime
do not yet show the decrease that might
be expected were the claims of the
advocates of beer allowed. - Boston
Traveller.
THE advice of the Argus to the
WATCHMAN to stick to Legitimate
journalism is amusing. Why, there
is a tradition that the Argus once de-
parted so far from what is legitimate
and decent in journalism that one of its
fastidious patrons was constrained to
pick it up with tongs and throw it
out of the nearest window. This is not
an improbable story. " People who
live in glass houses should not throw
stones"
THE anti-poverty party, which Mr..
George and DR.. McGlynn are starting
in the interest of labor, would be a
most useful one if it would begin by a
boycott on the grog-shop. This is the
source of seven-eighths of the actual
poverty of the country, and will con-
tinue to be so long as so large portion
of the wages of wage-earners is eX-
changed for that which is several de-
grees worse than nothing.-BOstOn
Journal.
THE democratic st. Louis Republican
confesses as follows: 1.-The moment
liquor license and regulation comes up
in certain Northern States the democrat
tom-tom is beaten to call the party to
defence of the priceless right of an
American citizen to sell liquor when he
pleases, where he pleases and how he
pleases, and to make itself the Jealous
servitor of an interest which in every
other civilized country is kept in rigor-
GUS subsection"
IT is evident that the public, without
regard to party, will demand such
legislation at the hands of congress as
shall prevent our country from becom-
ing the resort and permanent home of
the criminals and outlaws of all nations.
1t can come none too soon. Every
steamer from Europe brings to our
shores greater or less number of these
vagabonds, and here these conspira-
tors-socialists and anarchists-find
safety and protection. The country
must cease to nourish these wretches
or permit them to contaminate the
moral health of our people. Cleveland
Leader.
AS we have no time to search a
bushel of chaff for kernel of wheat
we did not discover the bright thing in
the Argus of May 4 concerning the
WATCHMAN and the mugwumps until a
friend unkindly called our attention to
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